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Researchers have traced the origin of platinum deposits in South Africa(aurmoth.blogspot.com)
3 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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by sah 18y ago
Do you have good links for bohmian, GRW, and many-minds?
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by sah 18y ago
Stuff like this tends to make developers nervous about adopting a new platform. This actually makes me feel good about adopting App Engine as a platform, not bad. Of course there will be outages. Then the problems will be fixed, and ther
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by sah 18y ago
Isn't this easy to do with tables?
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Is the Universe Actually Made of Math?(discovermagazine.com)
35 points by sah 18y ago|11 comments
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Gay men and heterosexual women have similarly shaped brains, research shows(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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The History of Firefox 1.0 to 3.0 in Screenshots(lifehacker.com)
1 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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A proposal to the Associated Press: A link ethic(buzzmachine.com)
2 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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by sah 18y ago
One things operating systems do that I wish browsers would emulate is per-process memory management. Even with the excellent work on memory management in Firefox 3, long-running javascript apps can fragment the browser's heap such that mem
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Researchers Develop Darkest Man-Made Material Using Carbon Nanotubes(rpi.edu)
1 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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by sah 18y ago
Yes, and yes. The last time I worked at a company where people didn't feel comfortable swearing in meetings was probably 1997. Honest and casual communication is faster, friendlier, and more enjoyable.
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by sah 18y ago
Some of my favorites that I've written or come across... From the BitTorrent client source, an apt comparison: This function is like a boat made of shit, floating on a river of shit. From my .emacs file: ;; Fucking RMSmacs (by ve
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by sah 18y ago
Fuck yes! Just like the pros: http://www.jwz.org/doc/censorzilla.html
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by sah 18y ago
I don't understand the objection here to getters and setters. Sometimes part of the public interface of an object is as simple as a property that can be read or written. Is the idea just that a large number of getters and setters are a goo
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A 30-picowatt processor for sensors(blogs.zdnet.com)
11 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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New study: sea level exerts a driving influence on rates of extinction(scienceblog.com)
1 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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TechCrunch50 to launch 50 companies over three days(techcrunch50.com)
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Are we aliens?(badastronomy.com)
7 points by sah 18y ago|2 comments
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Next Generation Wind Turbine Breaks $1/Watt Barrier(solveclimate.com)
18 points by sah 18y ago|3 comments
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Stem cell therapy for eye disease(news.bbc.co.uk)
5 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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by sah 18y ago
I often hear people advocate a policy of only downvoting offensive or trolling comments on news.YC. I think it's a bad idea. My goal in voting is always to improve the experience for the next reader. That means that I vote up what I thin
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by sah 18y ago
Don't just avoid sending plaintext passwords, also avoid storing them! Storing plaintext passwords makes all of your users vulnerable if someone gets their hands on your database. Instead, store the salted hash of the password, something l
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Two nucleobases found in a meteor fragment are of extraterrestrial origin(news.yahoo.com)
1 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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Information Unit Nomenclature: Bits or Shannons?(muq.org)
3 points by sah 18y ago|1 comments
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by sah 18y ago
I found this interesting, too. Margins should be huge in the cafe business, right? So it must be rent and employees that are costing her so much. I still would have expected a cafe to be profitable with that kind of revenue.
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by sah 18y ago
"Meraki is donating the devices plus free Internet access to any San Francisco resident who wants them. Neighbors within a block's radius of the device can tap into the Internet for free, too." It's ad-supported internet access. They ins
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by sah 18y ago
I've also had good experience with Trac. If you need sophisticated traditional bug tracking features, it isn't quite all there: you can't assign a bug to more than one version, or more than one component, for example. But its subversion a
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by sah 18y ago
I like this interpretation: http://www.ipod.org.uk/reality/reality_decoherence.asp Here's the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence
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by sah 18y ago
Web apps are compelling for the same reasons that make web-based email so incredibly popular: no download/install process, and access to your data from any internet-connected computer.
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by sah 18y ago
An unlocked car only leaves the owner vulnerable to break-ins. This is more like noticing that Honda Civics can't be properly locked, and leaving a note on the dashboard of each and every one, so that Honda will experience pressure to fix

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